Word: strasmick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years rolled on Mrs. Diamond, a phlegmatic woman with a stupid loose mouth, grew fat. Her husband got to going around with chorus girls, one in particular called Marion Strasmick whose program name was Kiki Roberts. It generally turned out that whereas Diamond was shot in bed with Miss Roberts, it was Mrs. Diamond who nursed him through his convalescence. Mrs. Diamond was not only immensely good-natured. She was a great joker. In their summer home near Acra she rigged up an electric chair. Her husband was against the idea. In December 1931 Diamond was acquitted of the charge...
More than 1,500 persons stood in line to see Marion Roberts (Strasmick), chorus girl consort of the late Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in a song-&-dance act at the Academy of Music, cheap movie & vaudeville theatre on Manhattan's lower East Side. The gangster's widow, plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, announced that she, too, would appear in vaudeville, in a playlet designed to '"vindicate" her husband. Said she: ''He wouldn't have known how to be a gangster...
...door. "Gotta go see some of my newspaper pals," he said. "Stick around." Outside he told his taxi man: "Gotta see Marion. Gotta tell her how I got acquitted again." The taxi man drove him to a rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb the stairs, slam the door of his room. His wife still waited in the speakeasy...
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